True Leaf Market Donation Program

Posted on January 20, 2026 by Hillary

Every year we start more than 14,000 seeds in our shared greenhouse. We grow all of the plants for our 20 school gardens, for our Annual Plant Sale & Celebration in May, and for sharing with the community and other groups doing similar work. We also direct-plant thousands of seeds into each garden, and give away several thousand seed packets through our Free Seed Order Form. This means we grow through SO MANY SEEDS and it also means we rely on the generosity of seed companies and seed growers! True Leaf Market Donation Program is a new one for us this year, but we’re excited to see what we can grow with their seeds.
THANKS SO MUCH, TRUE LEAF MARKET!

Many freshly-started flats of seeds from LCSG’s 2025 Spring growing season.

Join us for the 2024 Fall Gathering

Posted on October 10, 2024 by Ludger

Join us for live music, a special dinner featuring school gardens’ produce and local food, fresh apple cider, and local beverages.

Lower Columbia School Gardens invites you to our annual Fall Gathering on November 9th from 6-9pm to celebrate our accomplishments and sustain this good work into the future. Come and enjoy the best food, beverages, and company this season has to offer.

Where: Cowlitz County Event Center Floral Building 1900 7th Avenue Longview, WA 98632

Tickets are $60 per person;
please purchase in advance.

2024 Plant Sale

Posted on April 21, 2024 by Ludger

Saturday May 11, from
9:00 to 1:00 at Northlake Elementary, 2210 Olympia Way.

Come get your School Garden veggies, herbs, flowers, and perennials! We will be joined again by Watershed Garden Works who offer a wide variety of native, edible, and ornamental plants.

Enjoy live music, explore the Garden and Orchard, and meet celebrity garden rabbits.
We hope you will attend this festive event that is part plant sale, part celebration of life, food, and community.

Download the English or Spanish language flyer!

Thank you so much for supporting local School Gardens – together we are making a real difference!

Join us for The 2023 Fall Gathering

Posted on October 7, 2023 by Ludger

Join us for live music, a special dinner featuring school gardens’ produce and local food, fresh apple cider, and local beverages.

Lower Columbia School Gardens invites you to our annual Fall Gathering on November 11th from 6-9pm to celebrate our accomplishments and sustain this good work into the future. Come and enjoy the best food, beverages, and company this season has to offer.

Where: Cowlitz County Event Center Floral Building 1900 7th Avenue Longview, WA 98632

Tickets are $55 per person;
please purchase in advance.

2023 Plant Sale

Posted on April 23, 2023 by Ludger

Saturday May 13, from
9:00 to 1:00 at Northlake Elementary, 2210 Olympia Way.

Come get your School Garden veggies, herbs, flowers, and perennials! We will be joined again by Watershed Garden Works who offer a wide variety of native, edible, and ornamental plants.

Enjoy live music, explore the Garden and Orchard, and meet celebrity garden rabbits.
We hope you will attend this festive event that is part plant sale, part celebration of life, food, and community.
Thank you so much for supporting local School Gardens – together we are making a real difference!

More here: https://lowercolumbiaschoolgardens.app.box.com/s/muyvj2wpjugjj9rh59wk1syfttp7zchm

2022 School Garden Plant Sale!

Posted on April 18, 2022 by Ludger

Saturday May 7, from
9:00 to 1:00 at Northlake Elementary, 2210 Olympia Way.

Come get your School Garden veggies, herbs, flowers, and perennials! We will be joined again by Watershed Garden Works who offer a wide variety of native, edible, and ornamental plants, and Willow Grove Gardens with hanging flower baskets. Enjoy live music, explore the Garden and Orchard, and meet celebrity garden rabbits Sam and Satou.

We hope you will attend this festive event that is part plant sale, part celebration of life, food, and community.

Thank you so much for supporting local School Gardens – together we are making a real difference!

We’d like to hear your story!

Posted on August 26, 2020 by Ian

Hello friends,

Has Lower Columbia School Gardens had a positive impact on you or your family in 2020? As you probably know, we were unable to do our regular Spring garden programs with students so we shifted to growing food, helping our community grow food, and giving away fresh produce. We’d especially love to hear from people who received container gardens, plants, seeds for their home gardens, and/or free produce this year. Email us at info@lcschoolgardens.org or call/text 360-200-8918 if you’d be willing to speak to a School Gardens staff member about your experience, or fill out this survey to share your story with us. Thank you!

Spanish: https://forms.gle/mhkaAJHY7WygmkdcA

English: https://forms.gle/FRTzYQeiQJDqeXKr5

Glimpses of school gardens from Our Summer of Covid

Posted on August 23, 2020 by Ian

**New farm field at Three Rivers Christian – Longview**

The food we grow

Posted on August 23, 2020 by Ian

With limited opportunities to work with students this summer, we turned our focus to growing as much good food as possible for our community.

Our average harvest from school gardens is 250 pounds of food per week, most of which is distributed free at farm stands as well as through Family Community Resource Center, South Kelso Neighborhood Association, Radical Love, and others.